Two of the rabbits who live and work in Eientei; they helped Kaguya and Mokou put out a fire in the bamboo forest. Neither of them is particularly bright; Mika is reasonably high up in the rabbit hierarchy, and generally uses her authority to avoid most of her actual responsibilities. Midori is a bit lower down in the rabbit hierarchy, and slightly lazy, but occasionally rather shrewd in a simpleminded sort of way, and quick to point out the holes in Mika's self-justifications. They're often seen together.

Mika and Midori fun facts

They were originally just a random pair of rabbits who showed up in the "putting out the fire" scene, but eventually they got a names and actual character details, becoming semi-regular characters. She retains no overall plot-significance whatsoever.

They got the new character designs in comic #30 in an attempt to make them more distinctive. They were then never seen again for almost 40 comics.

There appears to be a real person named Midori Inaba. She is entirely unrelated to this character.

Daisuke Kirisame

A tall skinny man with short black hair with one blonde streak. Dresses in a maroon kimono with black highlights. In-comic, the blonde streak and the black highlights are not depicted, and he has white sleeves.

Marisa's more-or-less-estranged father, who runs the Kirisame-ya secondhand shop in the Human village. He helped found the Outside Inn, a place where visiting outsiders can stay while they decide whether they want to live in Gensokyo, or return to the Outside as soon as possible (he encourages the latter). He has a generally good-natured personality, and usually tries to see the best in everyone (human) he meets. He is proud of having no magical aptitude whatsoever, and his relationship with his daughter is more than a little strained, both due to her choice of vocation and to her relationship with a youkai. He likes meeting people who won't automatically associate him with Marisa.

Daisuke fun facts

"Daisuke" (大輔) means "great help," and it's a fairly common name (in the Outside World, at least).

Once upon a time, Kotohime decided to start a little police-force. Tsukiyo, one of her friends, decided to join for want of anything better to do. At the time, they didn't really actually do anything, since the Human Village was largely self-policing in all respects, and youkai attacks were handled by youkai hunters. However, Kotohime was a major player during an incident involving twohumans from the Outside, and from there the police force has slowly grown in power and influence and size until they grew big enough, technically, that they could arrest the Shrine Maiden if they wanted. It's all quietly gotten away from Tsukiyo, who just wanted something to do; the "what you need to do" has grown somewhat beyond what she was actually prepared to do, though she can just about handle being a police sergeant. Seldom seen without her friend Tsumami. They are collectively called "the Two Tsus" for their names.

Tsukiyo fun facts

"Tsukiyo" (月夜) means "moonlit night"; "Juuten" (重点) means an important point, or laying stress on something, or a colon.

Sergeant Tsumami "Mami" Anryoku joined the police force shortly after Kotohime started it, back when it was just a bunch of girls acting Important without actually needing to do much, and she became fast friends with Tsukiyo. Unfortunately, it has gotten big enough that they actually need to do things, so she relies on Tsukiyo to use her rank to allow them to slack off together. She's slightly more shrewd than her counterpart, and occasionally a mild kleptomaniac.

Tsumami fun facts

"Tsumami" (撮み) (not to be confused with "tsunami" means a handle, or button, or knob; Anryoku (暗緑) means dark green.

Rin fun facts

The above profile is a reference to an in-character dossier of I-No, the villain of Guilty Gear XX.

Rin Satsuki is a character who was originally planned to appear in Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, but she was dummied out, and all that remains is a name and two Spell Cards, "Flower Sign" and "Wind Sign," left alone in the code.

She shares both of her names with Rin Kaenbyou and Satsuki Hakurei, respectively; the latter case was because I wasn't expecting to actually use Rin Satsuki in my stories.

Apparently, some time ago, Rumia was an extremely powerful youkai, with ambitions for dethroning Yukari's position. At the same time as the events of Mystic Square, she had a fight with Yukari, and the latter won and sealed her away in a much younger and sillier form. She is accidentally freed from time to time, causing a certain amount of annoyance.

In the Fate of 60 Years timeline, she has been permanently released, and has formed Team ❽, a group which appears to be dedicated to sparking conflict with humans and other Good Guys for the sake of making things interesting; it consists of herself, Mima, Yuuka Kazami, and Nue Houjuu, respectively titling themselves the Shining Shadow, the Deathly Dusk, the Horticultural Blackness, and the Chimeric Dark.

EX-Rumia fun facts

Her sword is called the Sword of Light and Darkness; it has the ability to become unaffected by light and darkness, thus appearing the same regardless of lighting-level, and Rumia seems to have a measure of control over this ability. Yukari takes it away every time she seals her back up, but once freed, Rumia tends to reacquire it fairly quickly.

Team ❽ is a parody of the Midnight Crew from MS Paint Adventures, which consists of Spades Slick, Diamonds Droog, Hearts Boxcars, and Clubs Deuce. (Note the initials of Team ❽'s titles.)

Her given name uses the kanji for "light" (a reference to the theory that "Rumia" is a corruption of "Lumia"), and "Yagami" means "night god." This is a reference to Light Yagami, the villainous protagonist of Death Note.

A magically-infused mushroom that grew in a corner of the Magic Forest that hadn't been visited in years; it became a mushroom-youkai, naming herself Masha Kinoko. She spent a little while after that simply getting a handle on life, although between interference from Yukari and Mima and then the rest of Team ❽, she kept getting startled to bits.

In the future-timeline, she has matured quite a bit, making friends and attending parties at the Hakurei Shrine. She has a bit of a rivalry with Mima, who wants to get back at her for blowing her up on her first meeting. Masha is also apparently now incapable of being startled, but she does sometimes react violently if you try.

Masha fun facts

The characters for "kinoko" (奇野小) roughly mean "little strange field." However, it is a pun on the word for "mushroom" (キノコ). "Masha" (Маша) is a Russian name, with multiple possible meanings.

Masha is also noteworthy for being the first original character to recieve fanart.

One of the many gods, youkai, and demons who joined Yukari in her failed Lunarian Invasion. She was fatally wounded in battle, shortly after realizing that Yukari had actually intended for them to lose. Yukari had tried to save her, but was unable to do so; she didn't realize this at first, and bore a grudge for a time. A thousand years later, Kanako fed Yasora's corpse to Utsuho, and the rest is Subterranean Animism's history. She is rather irritated at Utsuho's perceived stupidity.

In the future-timeline, however, they have settled their differences; Yasora has helped Utsuho to be more intelligent.

Yasora fun facts

"Kojiwa" (小皺) literally means "fine wrinkles/crow's feet." The characters for "Yasora" (八空) approximately mean "eight skies," and "sora" sounds vaguely like the Japanese pronunciation of "solar."

Reimu Hakurei, in her 70s. She is generally much more relaxed than she was in her younger years, but she has taken enough care of herself that she's still as spry as she was back then (though sometimes she leads enemies into a false sense of security by pretending she isn't). She has a somewhat motherly concern for other characters; sometimes, when she's annoyed with someone, she'll call them a "little boy/girl," on the basis that they appear younger than she is, even if she's talking to a youkai ten times her age.

"Cirno-nee"

An older version of Cirno with a blue ribbon, wearing a blue dress with a white long-sleeved blouse and with an orange scarf. She has the usual spikes-of-ice wings as in Touhou Hisoutensoku, but can transform them into much larger angelic-looking ice-wings.

Cirno, as a "transcended fairy." She became too powerful, and began to understand death too clearly, and as a result, she became something other than a fairy; she has also matured, and become much less hot-headed. As Shikieiki warned her, this also means that it is in fact possible for her to die permanently; she's therefore a lot more careful. She still has a lot of fairy-like personality traits, though.

Not even she knows precisely what she is or what to do with herself.

Cirno-nee fun facts

"Cirno-nee" is an already-existing fan-made variant of Cirno who is older and (presumably) more mature. The scarf isn't mandatory, but seems reasonably common (and its presence sometimes seems to be the only reason an image has been tagged "Cirno-nee" in the first place).

The shrine maiden after Reimu retired from actively maintaining the Border, though Reimu still does a lot more youkai-hunting than Satsuki does. Reimu found her and adopted her when she was about a year old. She is still fairly inexperienced, and she feels a certain amount of pressure as a result of constantly living in Reimu's shadow. Many other people view her solely as "the Shrine Maiden after Reimu," or as "Reimu's granddaughter."

Satsuki fun facts

She was named after Rin Satsuki, though where the kanji for Rin's surname (冴月) seems to be made of the given name "Sae" plus "Tsuki" ("moon"/"month"), Satsuki Hakurei's name (皐月) uses the kanji for the traditional name of the month of May.1 (When I named her, I hadn't known I was going to use Rin Satsuki herself in my stories.)

Because she was merely adopted, she cannot use the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orb. Yukari has offered on at least one occasion to fix this (it isn't specified whether she meant changing the Orb or changing Satsuki), but Reimu declined.

About ten years after they were married, Marisa and Alice finally figured out how to create an Independent Doll (as opposed to merely a tsukumogami); Alice applied the process to Shanghai, and as a result, their first "daughter" was "born." She is somewhat mischievous and quite snarky, and often likes to tease her younger sister (who in turn treats this as another source of fun). Refers to Alice as her mother and Marisa as her "other mother"; as of 179 GC, she is 44 years old, starting from when she attained independence.

Marisa and Alice devised a spell whereby two women could have a daughter (though they have not disclosed the precise details to either Carroll or Shanghai), and used it to concieve Carroll, born several months after Reimu found Satsuki. She has an overabundance of youthful enthusiasm, and she's sort of a "Marisa-in-training," but she has even less experience than Satsuki; she certainly hasn't mastered Shachuu magic and become a full-fledged youkai magician (as described in Perfect Memento). She has a sort of running joke with Shanghai whereby, in English, Shanghai is referred to as the "big sister" (despite being only doll-sized) and Carroll is referred to as the "little sister."

Carroll fun facts

Alice was named after "Alice in Wonderland," so Carroll was named after the author.

On the rare occasions when she uses the Japanese form of her name, her given name takes the form of the kanji "Uta" (歌), meaning "song."

It is not entirely clear how, but Yukari became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. She was named Kon Yakumo, and she ended up somewhat spoiled and self-centered, calling herself "Meimu" out of jealousy for Reimu's fame; Ran, Chen, and Reimu have done their best to undo the damage, but she still considers herself somewhat "superior." She's a bit touchy about her interference with the Hisou Tensoku incident.

Kon fun facts

Meimu is a Chinese fan-made character created when Reimu lost a popularity poll; in that version of her story, Yukari took a formless youkai and created Meimu to be a sort of "evil twin" of Reimu.

The kanji for "Meimu" (冥夢) means Dark/Cursed Dream. "Kon" (紺) means "navy blue"; all of the Yakumo family are named after colors. Going by the color spectrum theme with Chen (orange), Ran (indigo), and Yukari (violet), this places her just below Ran.

"Kon" is also the noise foxes make in Japanese. This appears to have nothing in particular to do with Ran.

Kimiko Muffin

Yeah, making magic mushrooms involves generating magic. She can generate more fungus, but the magic will only continue to spread according to its own rules. (Which may very well be "it spreads instantly along with the fungus," but that'll only be for rare and not-particularly-useful specieseseses.)

Masha - He can guess her.
Yasora - Introduced
Kon - Introduced.
Carroll - Introduced (As a side note, his second guess here was Rin. And I don't mean the one from SA, either.)
I won't bother with Rin (becasue, as above, already guessed) or Shanghai (becasue she's almost guaranteed to turn up.)
Satsuki - Introduced
And all that's left are either common fanwork stuff or somewhat generic characters notable only for name.

Kimiko Muffin

See, the thing is, my stuff really isn't all that popular. There's merely a bunch of people who like it a whole lot. For reference, "I've never heard of Masha Kinoko until now", and with Akinator specifically, Masha's been played 23 times, while Yoshika Miyako has been played 110 times and Kyouko's been played 55 times, despite having been around for a lot less time.

Kimiko Muffin

1. Look at the other addition to her profile.
2. There's a theory that it's supposed to be "Lumia," and ZUN engrishderped again (assuming it's romanized with an R in anything ZUN's done to begin with). Either way, thatisthejoke.jpg